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These are some gem of quotes from the great philosopher Jean Paul Sratre. Have a look :

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Albert Camus’s quotes :

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.